Tributes flood in for EU data ethics champion Buttarelli
The EU’s top data protection chief, Giovanni Buttarelli, a key architect of GDPR and one of the first to question…
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Facebook privacy update is ‘just a regulatory sweetener’
Facebook’s latest privacy overhaul – in which it has vowed to let users stop it from tracking them when they…
Verizon faces GDPR probe as WhatsApp decision looms
Verizon Media, the company behind the Huffington Post, Yahoo and AOL, is facing a major GDPR investigation by the Irish…
Data breaches can hit mental health, legal firm claims
Data breach compensation lawyers Hayes Connor – one of two UK “ambulance chasing” legal firms wooing British Airways customers – has…
Man City plays to the crowd with face app to cut queues
Data privacy concerns might have put facial recognition software under close scrutiny from the regulators but, over at Manchester City…
ICO launches major probe into facial recognition tech
The Information Commissioner’s Office is embarking on a full-scale investigation into the use of facial recognition software in public places…
DMA jumps into bed with US software giant OneTrust
The DMA has signed a major commercial contract with OneTrust, the US privacy software giant valued at $1.3bn (£1.1bn), which…
Thank the Lord: Parish and town councils get GDPR aid
Parish and town councils GDPR fears have been eased following divine intervention from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which is launching…
Firms accused of handing out personal data willy-nilly
The so-called “right of access” under GDPR, which allows consumers to find out what information is being held on them,…
Marriott sets aside £104m just in case GDPR plea fails
Marriott International’s chief executive has talked a good game in the hotel giant’s battle to overturn – or at least…